Drive for beater cleaners



July 21,1925. 1,546,980

\N. HARDMAN DRIVE FOR BEATER CLEANERS Filed Oct, 4. 1924 2 sheets-sheaf. 1

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ATTORNEYS Patented July 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES.

WILLIAM HARDMAN, or na vrrnroiv, olvranracannnn.

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Application filed October 4, 1924. Serial No. 741,724.

To all whom it may concern: 1

' Be itknown that 1, WILLIAM HARDMAN, of the city of Hamilton, in the county of Wentworth, in the Province of Ontario,

Canada, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Drives for Beater Cleaners, of which the following is the specification.

a My invention relates to improvements in drives for beater cleaners and the object of the invention is to devise an improved drive therefor. A further object is to devise means for driving a cotton or waste condensing roll for the cotton or waste being discharged from the lattice conveyor to the feed roll, and a still further object is to devise means whereby the mixer and initial hopper feeder disclosed in my co-pending application of even date for improvements in systems for lapping cotton are driven from the main drive of-my beater cleaner.

My invention consists of a drive for beater cleaners constructed and arranged all as hereinafter more particularly described and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the beater cleaner and lattice conveyorfor conveying the cotton thereintoprovided with my drive.

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. 7

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the driving mechanism between the beater drive shaft and the feed roll, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the surface of my condensing roll showing the teeth thereof.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

1 is the casing of the beater portion of my machine provided with the transverse beater shaft 2 journalled therein and provided with the outwardly extending beaters 3. 4 is a drive pulley on the shaft 2, and 5 is the drive belt connected with line shafting or other source of power. 6 is a worm on the opposite end of the beater shaft to the end provided with the drive pulley 4, said worm 6 meshing with the worm wheel 7 on a shaft 8 which is journalled in the bracket 9 on the side of the casing 1. The opposite end of the shaft 8 to the end provided with the worm wheel carries a bevelled gear 10 which meshes with the bevelled gear 11 on the stub shaft 12 journalled to the side of the casing 1, said stub shaft also carrying the gear 13 which meshes with the superimposed gear 14 on the feed roll shaft 15 journalled in the casing 1, The feed roll shaft 15 carries the feed roll 16.

17 is the usual weighted arm pivotally mounted on the frame 18 of the conveyor portion of the machine and having its free end adapted to engage the bottom of the feed roll 16, the cotton or waste passing between the weighted arm and such feed roll. The other endof the feed roll shaft 15 carries a gear 19 which meshes with the gear 20 on the lattice conveyor drive shaft 21 which is journalled in the frame 18 and is provided with rollers 22 over which the lattice. conveyor 23 extends. The opposite end of thelattice conveyor 23 is mounted on the rollers. 24 which are journalled in the adjustable brackets 25-secured to the frame 18. 26 is an additional gear on the shaf 21 adapted to mesh with the gear 27 on the in the frame 18, said shaft 28' carrying the condensing roll 29 which is positioned be tween: the feed roll and the lattice conveyor, as is illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawing. 30 is an additional pulley on the beater shaft 2 adapted to be connected by the belt 31 with the pulley 32 on the cross shaft 33 which is journalled in the frame 18. The

I opposite end of the cross shaft 33 carries a pulley 34 which is connected by the belt 35 with the mixer described in my co-pending application, and such shaft 33 also carries adjacent to the pulley 32 an additional pulley 36 which is connected by the belt 37 with the initial hopper feeder described in my system application.

38 is the discharge end of the initial hopper feeder and the mixture therefrom is dropped onto the lattice conveyor 23 and. as it passes off the feed roll end thereof, it is compressed by thecondensing roll 29 be ing then fed between the feed roll 16 and the arm 17, thus rendering the action of the beater 3 on the material more effective.

From the above description, it will be seen that when the pulley 4 is rotated, my drive will simultaneously operate the beater, feed roll, condensing roll, lattice conveyor as well as the mixer and initial hopper feeder, the actuation of these two machines being dependent upon the actuation of the beater cleaner.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a heater cleaner for cotton and its waste, a main shaft, means for driving the condensing roll shaft 28, which is journalle'd main shaft, beater elements on the main shaft, a feed roll including a drive shaft therefor, a conveyor including a drive shaft therefor, a driving connection between the main shaft and the feed roll shaft, and a driving connection between the feed roll shaft and the conveyor shaft.

2. In a heater cleaner for cotton and its waste, a main shaft, means for driving the main shaft, beater elements on the main shaft, a feed roll including a drive shaft therefor, a conveyor including a drive shaft therefor, a condensing roll including a drive shaft therefor, a driving connection between the main shaft and the feed roll shaft, a driving connection between the feed roll shaft and the conveyor shaft, and a driving connection between the conveyor shaft and the condensing roll shaft.

8. In a beater cleaner for cotton and its waste, a main shaft, means for driving the main shaft, beater elements on the main shaft, a feed roll including a shaft therefor, a conveyor including a drive shaft therefor, a worm on the main shaft, a short shaft suitably ournalled, a worm wheel on one end and a bevel pinion on the other end thereof, a stub shaft, a gear and a bevel gear thereon, said bevel gear meshing with the bevel pinion, a gear on the feed roll shaft meshing with the gear on the stub shaft, a gear on the other end of the feed roll shaft, and a gear on the conveyor drive shaft meshing therewith.

4. In a beater cleaner for cotton and its waste, a main shaft, means for driving the main shaft, beater elements on the main shaft, a feed roll including a shaft therefor, a conveyor including a drive shaft therefor, a worm on the main shaft, a short shaft suitably journalled, a worm wheel on one end and a bevel pinion on the other end thereof, a stub shaft, a gear and a bevel gear thereon, said bevel gear meshing with the bevel pinion, a gear on the feed roll shaft meshing with the gear on the stub shaft, a gear on the other end of the feed roll shaft, a gear on the conveyor drive shaft meshing therewith, a condenser roll, a drive shaft therefor, said condensing roll positioned in spaced relation to the discharge end of the conveyor, a gear on the condenser roll drive shaft and a second gear on the conveyor drive shaft meshing therewith.

5. In a beater cleaner for cotton and its waste, a main shaft, means for driving the main shaft, beater elements on the main shaft, a feed roll including a shaft therefor, a conveyor including a drive shaft therefor, a worm on the main shaft, a stub shaft suitably journalled, a worm wheel on one end and a bevel pinion on the other end thereof, a stub shaft, a gear and a bevel gear thereon, said bevel gear meshing with the bevel pinion, a gear on the feed roll shaft meshing with the gear 011 the stub shaft, a gear on the other end of the feed roll shaft, a gear on the conveyor drive shaft meshing therewith, a condenser roll, a drive shaft therefor, said condensing roll positioned in spaced relation to the discharge end of the conveyor, a gear on the condenser roll drive shaft, a second gear on the conveyor drive shaft meshing therewith, a suitably journalled cross shaft, a pulley thereon, a pulley on the'main shaft, a belt between the pulleys, a mixer drive shaft connected pulley on the cross shaft and a hopper feeder drive shaft connected pulley on the cross shaft.

WILLIAM HARDMAN. 

